/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17773559
Originally it was to use up some stale bread and extend the amount of meat a person "ate." You're also more or less asking why do people prefer discreet units of food over a sludge. It's also fun to say SPAHGETTI AND MEATBALLS or WHOA MOMMA THAT'S A SPICY MEAT-A-BALL and wildly gesticulate at the table. Those are some reasons for this great American dish

>>17527268
I don't think so anon. Italian food in America is overrated, but Italian food in Italy is worthy of its status

>>17145474
Were they speaking English in those videos anon?
Regardless they originated and propagated in Europe

Americans making spaghetti with marinara sauce doesn't make it American, it's Italian. But if you add big ass meatballs (which they wouldn't do in Italy) because of the shared cultural history of Italian immigrants to the USA, it becomes an American food. Likewise when Euros tweak a dish from the subcontinent to suit their own tastes it becomes a European food. If it makes its way back to India it doesn't stop being European

>>16060898
there are so many god damn examples you might as well have just started a "food thread"

I think spaghetti and meatballs could be considered an american national dish, especially since they don't have it in Italy

>>13898441

>>10301672
Italian-American food is basically Campagnian food with fewer vegetables (which were harder to come by in NYC) fewer varieties of cheese (because imports were expensive) and a lot more meat (because meat was cheaper in America). The meatballs in spaghetti and meatballs for instance are huge compared to their mother dish

>>8250916
a diet rich in sugary sodas